Correlatives

Correlatives

Correlatives are the words used to phrase questions that require specific answers (rather than yes/no) and their corresponding general answers. The "who, what, when, where and why" questions, and the replies of "here, there, everywhere, nowhere, somewhere".

Correlatives are not a part of speech, but a set of nouns, noun phrases and adverbs.

The first table lists all the correlatives of Novvocu, while the second table provides general translations to English.

Novvocu Forms			von	nin	tan	nont	licun	sum
			this	that	yonder	no, not	some	total, complete
per	n. phr.	one	vonper	ninper	tanper	nontper	licunper	sumper
per no	n. phr.*	one's	vonper no	ninper no	tanper no	nontper no	licunper no	sumper no
padart	n. phr.	thing	vonpadart	ninpadart	tanpadart	nontpadart	licunpadart	sumpadart
cals je	n. phr.*	kind, class	voncals je	nincals je	tancals je	nontcals je	licuncals je	sumcals je
mest	n. phr.	place	vonmest	ninmest	tanmest	nontmest	licunmest	summest
metode	adv.	way	vonmetode	ninmetode	tanmetode	nontmetode	licunmetode	summetode
rizone	adv.	reason	vonrizone	ninrizone	tanrizone	nontrizone	licunrizone	sumrizone
tempe	adv.	time	vontempe	nintempe	tantempe	nonttempe	licuntempe	sumtempe
calih	n. phr.	quantity	voncalih	nincalih	tancalih	nontcalih	licuncalih	sumcalih

Translations			this	that	yonder	no	some	each, every
		one	this (one)	that (one)	yonder (one)	no one, nobody	someone, somebody	each (one), everybody
		one's	this one's	that one's	yonder one's	no one's, nobody's	someone's, somebody's	everyone's, everybody's
		thing	this (thing)	that (thing)	yonder (thing)	nothing	something	everything
		kind	this kind of	that kind of, such a ...	yonder kind of	no kind of	some kind of	every kind of
		place	this here, here	there	yonder place	nowhere	somewhere	everywhere
		way	in this way	in that way, thus	in yonder way	in no way, nohow	in some way	in every way
		reason	for this reason	for that reason, so	for yonder reason	for no reason	somehow, for some reason	for every reason
		time	at this time	at that time, then	at yonder time	at no time, never	at some time	every time, always
		quantity	this much, this many	that much, that many, so much, so many	yonder many	no quantity, none	some (quantity)	the whole quantity, all of it